Atom Young Fantasy 07
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07
Andrew Butcher
The Time of the Reaper
Pbk published March 2007 by Atom at £5.99
ISBN: 1904233945
They Call It The Sickness
Nobody knows what causes it or where it comes from. Nobody knows why it only seems to affect the adult population. But everyone knows that if you catch it and you’re over 18, you die.
All around the world, teenagers like Travis, Richie, Mel, Jessica and Simon find themselves thrown together and forced to cooperate. But a world without rules is not the utopia many survivors thought it would be. Everything, now, is deadly serious. Those who can’t adjust to their new situation find themselves going the same way as the adults. Factions form quickly. Some want to take what they need through strength of arms, but others - the most organised - want to try to rebuild the world their parents left behind. Restoring society will be hard, but not impossible. After all, they reason, the worst is over.
But they’re wrong. It’s only just begun ...
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Garry Kilworth
Jigsaw
Pbk published May 2007 by Atom at £9.99
ISBN: 1904233767
Call me Max - everybody does. Welcome to my blog. I travel a lot with my dad and I set this up so you can see what I’m up to. There’s also another reason. I have this big secret …
April 29th
Krantu is a good way off the coast of Sarawak, a Malaysian island. No one lives on Krantu anymore and it’ll soon sink into the sea.
May 2nd
Something strange is going on, but I don’t dare ask what.
June 4th
.. He put the edges of the scrolls near to each other. What happened next made me jump backwards, my heart pounding.
July 5th
I’m not sure what happened. The bright beam of the torch was shining directly into a huge pair of eyes … Whatever had been caught in my torch beam crashed through the flimsy wall of the shed and stampeded into the rainforest beyond it. My Dad was going to kill me.
At first, Max’s diary seems like any other entry on a teenager’s btog but it’s an incredible adventure story. As the reader absorbs the strange events that unfold,’ Max and those around him are drawn deeper and deeper into danger. Surrounded by spies and pirates, Max makes a terrible discovery - a secret that could change the world for ever …
‘Adventurous, enigmatic, tense and nerve-racking - like Lost, but better’ Graham MarksThousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Scott Westerfeld
Parasite Positive
Pbk published June 2007 by Atom at £5.99
ISBN: 1905654073
One year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying in New York City than in attending class. Then he met a girl called Morgan, they had a fun night together and she passed on a parasite that turns people into ravenous vampires. You know how it goes.
Cal himself is only a carrier, but he’s infected the girlfriends he's had since Morgan, and it’s now his job to hunt them clown before they can create even more of their kind.
‘Fast-paced, fascinating, creepy and totally absorbing - another great read from Scott Westerfeld’ Garth NixThousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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